Registering device.



J. GLENN.

REGISTERING DEVICE. APPLICATION TILED r1112. 9, 1912.

1,064,469, Patented June 10, 1913.

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JOHN GLENN, OF NEWYORK, N. Y.

' REGISTERING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented June 10, 1913.

Application filed February 9, 1912. Serial No. 676,510.

1 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN GLENN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan ofthe city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registering Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to registering devices and one of the objects of the invention is to construct a. registering device in which a reading may be printed or otherwise formed on a thin strip or sheet of paper and in which the totalizer or other recording means is normally obstructed from view.

Another object of the invention is to construct a cash registerwith a totalizer normally obstructed from view by means of a movable shutter and-also having an inking and printing means normally held in inoperative position. In the preferred construction the movable shutter and the inking and printing means are normally locked and capable of being moved from their normal position only by a removable key adapted to unlock the same.

As showing a specific embodiment of the invention reference is made to the accompanying drawing formingna part of-the specification in which,

Figure 1 represents in perspective the out? side view of the top portion of a cash regiister. Fig. 2 is a partial side view of the registering device, a portion of the operat% p Y 'Fi .3 that when the operatin key or lever .ingkey and the totalizer, the inking mech anisin-and the means connecting the inking mechanism and the operating key being in.-

dicated by dotted lines. Fig. 3. is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 4, the means between the inking! echanism and the operating key being in icated by dotted lines. Fig. 4 is a plan view taken on theline 44 of Fig. 3 and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the end members which carry theinking member and the shutter F which serves as a connecting member between the end members.

A indicates the top of a cash registering device comprising a casing B- containing therein the usual operating mechanism provided with the totalizer C. The casing directl above the totalizer is provided with a win ow or opening 0 and. a slit or opening 0 through which a strip of pa pe'nreceiving an impression from the ,tota izer may pass.

operating key Dis pivotally connected 'taliz mem :rs' f of the inking and shutter means to the casing by means of the shaft d and this key has slidably mounted th rein a shutter E which normally obstructs the totalizer from view through the window 0. This shutter E is held in normal position by the spring 6 and may be pushed from said normal position by the key 0. There is also carried within the casing an inking and shutter mechanism F having the end members 1 thereof slidably mounted in ways f supported on the casing. The inking of the totalizer is performed by the inking roller F and the end members f are connected by the bar or strip F 2 'extending'therebetween which servesas a shut-ter when the mechanism F is in its normal position.

There extends between the operating key, D and the inking and shutter mechanism F the link and lever mechanism G which serves as means to move the inking and shutter mechanism F from its normal position as shown in Fig. 2 to the position shown in Fig. 3 when the operating key is lowered to impress the strip or sheet of paper H,against the totalizer. This link and lever mechanism G comprises the bell crank lever g the straight lever 9 the link 9* extending between the opcratin'gkey and thebell crank lever, the link gextending between the bell crank lever and the straight lever g and the link 9 extending between the straight lever gand an end f of the inking and shutter mechanism F. 7

It will be observed from an inspection of D is depressed from its norma position that the shutter and inking mechanism F will be moved to the' so that the shutter F and the inking roller F will respectively be moved away from and across the totalizer.

The operatin key 'D is normally locked and held in its e evated position by means of any suitable locking mechanism comprisinga. bolt :1: which can enter the opening 4i; jlr

thelever. The keyhole for this locking mechanism is indicated by the reference character d in Fig, 1. The operating key is returned to its normal position from the depressed or printing position by the tension spring (i clearly shown in Fig. 3.

-The opening or slot 0 through which a strip bf paper may be inserted in order to have vrinted'thereupon a reading of the tois normally closed by one pf the end F an as 'the last mentioned means isinorbination a totalizer or registering means,

maily locked, it is apparent that the opening C is normally closed by the end member which is located thereoyen. The operation is as follows: The operating key .D is unlocked by a removable key which is inserted in the keyhole d and the operating key D is partially depressed.- This .partial movement will cause the inking and shutter means F to travel from its normal position a suflicient amount for the -totalizer to be inked and also a suflicient amount for the end member f to uncover the opening 0" at the side of the register whereby a stripof paper may be inserted through the opening 0 into the. space bet-ween the tot-alizer -C andthe movable shutter E on the key. After-the strip of paper is thus inserted a further de-' pression of the key will cause the shutter E to impress the paper against the"figures on the totalizer or the other-indicating charac-- ters and thus print uponthe paper the reading thereof. Should it be desired to take a reading of the totalizer directly by'the eye withoutprinting the same .on apiece of paper all that is necessary is to partially depress the key D omit passing the paperthrough the opening C, and 'whenthe key is partially depressed force the shutter E against the compression spring e by means of the shutter key 6 thereby removing the only obstruction existing between the talizer and the,window c'.

It is obvious that various forms and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

= I claim as my invention:-

l. A registering device including in commovable means and means which normally look the movable means in inoperativepo sition', the/movable means normally obstructing the t-ot-alizer or registering means from view, butwhich when unlocked permitsa print or impression to be taken fron the'to talize'r or registering means and which also assists inthe formation of the rint or im-' pression, said movable means a o" movable to a position where a reading oin be taken directly on the totalizer or registering means.

2. A registering device including in combination a casing provided with registering means, a movablei inting and. shutter means which normal y obstructs the regis.

' 'tering means from view and. locking means .for normally holding-the printing andshut- .ter means in inoperative I position, the print-. .ingand shutter means w en unlocked mov- -able so as to impress 'a' reading-on a, p of paper or other object, said riritl "f end shutter means movable w on ocked to such position whereby are' g can be directly made uponthe 3. In a ringdev-icq'the combination of a casing, a totalizer, means for norwhich can be moved so that a reading of the totalizer can be made by the eye of the operator, means formoving the last mentioned means so the totalizer can be read by the eye of the operator, and means for forming an impression or print of the totalizer reading,

the last mentioned 'means being constructed 4 and arrangedso that the totalizer can be seen and read when the first mentioned means is in a position for the reading to be made by the eye.

4. AZ registering device including in combination a casing provided with-a window,

a re 'stering means within the casing, a

mova le means. normally obstructing the registering means from. view through the window, but movable to a position where the registering means can be seen, and printing means cooperatively related with the registering means whereby a reading of the registering 'means can be impressed, printed or means Gan. be brought into'opera- .tion 0 y after'tlie shutter has-been maxed" from-Fits normal position.-

. 69A registeringlgevice including in combination a casing constructed and arrangedso that the I g-a'window', a total- -izer, a normally loeked shutter obstructing the totalizer from-jgyi' through the window, said shatter permitted to move from its normal "tion only by unlocking the same by meansio'f, .afiremovablekey, nd printing means. iiorznail ",jlocked in inopera-' the position and movab e'by'the key to operative position onlyl iyiinlooking by a removable key.

7. A cash i in combination a casing,;a theea'sing, an operating-'keynormally held in ele-- vated position, inking means and means be tween the operating keyand the inlnng means whereby when the operating key ismoved downwardlyfrom elevated position,

.the inking means first ink the totalizer and msequently be moved tov a position where an impressing operation can be per formed between a member'on-the key and the totalizerl .'8. Ina registering device the combination tf-a casing, a totalizer therein, an oper ating key provided with a movable normally obstructing the totalizer from view and means cooperatively related with the key whereby when a 'of paper passmeliy the latter from view but ing through the casing and tween the totalizer and the operating key is caused to be impressed bythe key against the totalizer a reading of the totalizer will be imparted to the paper.

9. In a cash registering device, the combination of a totalizer, an operating key having therein amember movable so as to permit the t otalizer to be-read, an inking means movable between said member and and an operating key having a spring' pressed shutter therein normally obstructing the totalizer -from view.

'11. A registering device having in combination, a registering means, a shutter for normally obstructing the same from view, means for-moving the shutter from the normal obstruoting position, means for forming a print or impression of the reading of the registering means, and means for normally locking the printing or impressing means; the printing or impressing means being constructed and arranged so that a member thereof can be moved whereby the registering means can be read by the eye of the op erator at a time when the shdtter is moved from its normal obstructing position.

12. In a registering device the combination of registering means, movable means for obstructing the same from view, means for movin the same, means'for forming an impression or print of the reading of the registering means and means normally locked for preventing the taking of a reading from the registering means by either the operator or the printing means exoept when the next to the last mentioned means is unlocked.

This specification signed and witnessed this 5th day of February, A. D., 1912.

JOHN GLENN. Signed in the presence 0f- G. MCGRANN, HOXIEWV. SMITH.

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